There is no formal build and publishing process for Websites in Visual Studio 2010, it is really a set of files and folders. If you use the web site templates while creating a project in Visual Studio 2010 then publishing experience is vastly different from what available on web application projects. New updates have been released for improving publishing experience in Visual Studio 2010 and...
ASP.NET and Visual Studio loves HTML5
ASP.NET and HTML5 works together and in fact ASP.NET & Visual Studio loves HTML5. You can do everything in HTML5 using ASP.NET server language. This post explains some examples how asp.net works with HTML5.
Example:
Using new HTML5 capabilities in ASP.NET File upload control, First thing remove the text after html in DOCTYPE tag in your aspx page then your document is HTML5.
Creating prototype projects with SketchFlow for Visual Studio 2012
SketchFlow is a tool which you can use to create prototypes for interactive applications. Prototype can be used to workflow of your application or it can be a complex graph. SketchFlow is available in Blend Studio and it can be downloaded from here for Visual Studio 2012. This post discusses the SketchFlow features and then creating a prototype project for Visual Studio 2012. You can do the below...
Automated UI Testing with Visual Studio 2012
This post discusses about creating a fully automated UI test cases for your application using Visual Studio 2012. You can convert your existing manual tests into fully automated user-interface tests. Without manual intervention you can quickly alert the developers about possible faults in the application. Once you automated your manual tests then you can run the automated tests multiple...
Dependency graphs in Visual Studio 2012
Dependency graphs helps you visualise how your code is organised and understand its dependencies. This could be useful when you are working with un-familiar code. You can easily get visual overview of your code by creating dependency graphs.You can create dependency graphs in Visual Studio 2012 ultimate by choosing Architecture menu and then click Generate Dependency Graph –> for...
Using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2012
IntelliTrace can be used to collect and analyze the data in production. IntelliTrace speeds debugging by showing history of what happened in your application while you run. This reduces how often you restart the application when you want look at past events. IntelliTrace automatically collects information about events when you start debugging. Some examples of events exceptions, break...
What is new in C# and Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2012
This post discusses the new language features that is introduced in Visual Studio 2012. One of the main things that language team introduced is the idea of producing windows 8 App. These APPs are talking to new API called windows runtime. Small new feature Caller Info Attributes is also added in this release. More about this feature can be read here. This release also brings iterators to...
Visual Studio 2012 Testing Features for Developers
Developer Testing in Visual Studio 2012 has been improved a lot and it is allowing them to concentrate more on the code they are writing in the application. In addition to the testing framework that comes with Visual Studio 2012, you can easily add third-party testing frameworks in the IDE. This post discusses the new unit and integration testing features for developer in Visual Studio 2012. To...
Agile Development with Visual Studio 2012
Developers want to be more agile and want to cope up with interruptions. This post helps the developers to collaborate with teams using Visual Studio 2012 and focus on what they do as developers. Assume you are in the middle of implementing some requirement or fixing the bug, something else is come may be it is high priority bug or requirement which your manager want you to work on first...
ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 new features in Visual Studio 2012
This post discuss ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 features, Web Forms in 4.5 allows you to build dynamic web sites quickly and easily. Web Forms generates much cleaner code on client-side with Unobtrusive Validation in this version. You can also build data-centric applications easily with data-binding features. Typical Web Form which contains more fields and validation controls can generate more code on...